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Democracy

About: Democracy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 108612 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2372198 citations.


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01 Jan 1963
TL;DR: An Approach to Political Culture Patterns of Political Cognition Feelings Toward Government and Politics Patterns of Partnership The Obligation to Participate The Sense of Civic Competence Citizen Competence and Subject Competence Competence, Participation, and Political Allegiance Social Relations and Civic Cooperation Organizational Membership and Civic competence Political Socialization and Civic Socialization Profiles of Nations and Groups The Civic Culture and Democratic Stability
Abstract: An Approach to Political Culture Patterns of Political Cognition Feelings Toward Government and Politics Patterns of Partnership The Obligation to Participate The Sense of Civic Competence Citizen Competence and Subject Competence Competence, Participation, and Political Allegiance Social Relations and Civic Cooperation Organizational Membership and Civic Competence Political Socialization and Civic Competence Profiles of Nations and Groups The Civic Culture and Democratic Stability

4,041 citations

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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of representation and social difference as a political resource for self-deterministic and self-representative political communication, and the limits of civil society and its limits.
Abstract: Introduction. Chapter 1: Democracy and Justice. Chapter 2: Inclusive Political Communication. Chapter 3: Social Difference as a Political Resource. Chapter 4: Representation and Social Perspective. Chapter 5: Civil Society and Its Limits. Chapter 6: Residential Segregation and Regional Democracy. Chapter 7 Self-Determination and Global Democracy

3,969 citations

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Amartya Sen1
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach to justice that is based on the Demands of Justice, Reason and Objectivity, Human Rights and Global Imperatives, and the Materials of Justice.
Abstract: * Preface * Acknowledgements * Introduction: An Approach to Justice Part I: The Demands of Justice * Reason and Objectivity * Rawls and Beyond * Institutions and Persons * Voice and Social Choice * Impartiality and Objectivity * Closed and Open Impartiality Part II: Forms of Reasoning * Position, Relevance and Illusion * Rationality and Other People * Plurality of Impartial Reasons * Realizations, Consequences and Agency Part III: The Materials of Justice * Lives, Freedoms and Capabilities * Capabilities and Resources * Happiness, Well-being and Capabilities * Equality and Liberty Part IV: Public Reasoning and Democracy * Democracy as Public Reason * The Practice of Democracy * Human Rights and Global Imperatives * Justice and the World * Notes * Name Index * Subject Index

3,834 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The authors analyzed several indexes of perceived corruption compiled from business risk surveys for the 1980s and 1990s and found that countries with Protestant traditions, histories of British rule, more developed economies, and (probably) higher imports were less corrupt.

3,592 citations

Book
01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: A theory of the democratic process: justifications -the idea of equal intrinsic worth personal autonomy a theory of democratic process the problem of inclusion as discussed by the authors, and a critique of guardianship, is presented in the paper "The Sources of modern democracy: the first transformation to the democratic city-state toward the second transformation - republicanism, representation, and the logic of equality".
Abstract: Part 1 The sources of modern democracy: the first transformation - to the democratic city-state toward the second transformation - republicanism, representation, and the logic of equality. Part 2 Adversarial critics: anarchism guardianship a critique of guardianship. Part 3 A theory of the democratic process: justifications - the idea of equal intrinsic worth personal autonomy a theory of the democratic process the problem of inclusion. Part 4 Problems in the democratic process: majority rule and the democratic process majority rule - practise process and substance process versus process when is a people entitled to the democratic process? Part 5 The limits and possibilities of democracy: the second democratic transformation - from the city-state to the nation-state democracy, polyarchy, and participation how polyarchy developed in some countries and not others is minority domination inevitable? pluralism, polyarchy and the common good common good as process and substance. Part 6 Toward a third transformation: democracy in tomorrow's world sketches for an advanced democratic country.

3,515 citations


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Metrics
No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20244
20236,229
202213,024
20212,720
20203,839
20193,951